View full sizeLibby March | MLive.comThe Laketon Township house of Dixon Smith, who held off two home invaders on Thursday afternoon, is photographed on Thursday, Sept. 20, 2012.

MUSKEGON, MI -- Bond was set at $20,000 apiece for James Leon Polk and Alex Andrew Dickerson at their arraignment for allegedly breaking into a Laketon Township home where a shotgun-wielding homeowner awaited them.

Polk, 27, and Dickerson, 26, both of Muskegon, were arraigned late Friday afternoon before Visiting Muskegon County 60th District Judge Richard Pasarela. Both were charged with first-degree home invasion, a felony punishable by up to 20 years in prison.

Pasarela scheduled a preliminary examination for 10 a.m. Oct. 4.

James Leon Polk

Alex Dickerson

Polk and Dickerson were arrested shortly after noon Thursday inside a home in the 200 block of North Buys Road in Laketon Township. The 63-year-old homeowner, Dixon Smith, who said he has stage 4 lymphoma currently in remission, was holding the two at the point of his double-barreled shotgun.

According to the Muskegon County Prosecutor's Office, Dickerson has two prior misdemeanor convictions: larceny less than $200 in 2008 in Muskegon County and misdemeanor counterfeiting in 2011 in Manistee County.